Lori Merish

Sentimental Materialism

Gender, Commodity Culture, and Nineteenth-Century American Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

"Ranging powerfully from the Scottish Enlightenment to the Cuban cigar, Lori Merish furnishes the culture of sentimentalism with a commodity logic and a political form. She finds, in fact, a whole new approach to women's writing, the society of slavery, the spiritual qualities of manufactured things, and the law of the market considered not as sentimental culture's antithesis but as its very foundation."--Eric Lott, author of "Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class"

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juni 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 151mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 614g
• ISBN-13: 9780822325161
• ISBN-10: 0822325160
• Artikelnr.: 22066152

Autorenporträt

Lori Merish is Assistant Professor of English at Georgetown University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Forms of Cultured Feeling
> 1. Embodying Gender: Sentimental Materialism in the New Republic
2. Gender, Domesticity, and Consumption in the 1830s: Caroline Kirkland,
Catharine Sedgwick, and the Feminization of American Consumerism
3. Sentimental Consumption: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and
the Aesthetics of Middle-Class Ownership
4. Domesticating “Blackness”: Harriet Jacobs, Sojourner Truth, and the
Decommodification of the Black Female Body
5. Fashioning a Free Self: Consumption, Politics, and Power in the Writings
of Elizabeth Keckley and Frances Harper
> 6. Not “Just a Cigar”: Commodity Culture and the Construction of Imperial
Manhood
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Index